All projects from the School of Engineering
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Development of the next generation of high-pressure pumps for sewer cleaning vehicles on future all-electric carrier vehicles
The general trend towards sustainable products also has a major impact on sewer cleaning vehicles. In order to be prepared for the future and to be able to cover the market needs while at the same time complying with sustainability requirements, a technology change from combustion engines and oil hydraulics to a ...
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Perovskite Accelerated Lifetime Assessment, degradation mechanism Comprehension for fast device reliability Enhancement (PALACE)
Among the emerging energy production technologies, metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry as their power conversion efficiency (PCE) has increased from 3.8% to a certified >25% in a decade. This is even more remarkable considering that low cost ...
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The Fourth International Workshop on Dynamic Scheduling Problems
The aim of the workshop is to present recent research results on dynamic scheduling problems, in which job processing times, machine speeds or other parameters of the problems are variable and dynamically change in time.
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Urban Green Space and Climate in a Network of Urban Climate Networks (URBNET)
Climate change is accelerating and affects livelihoods already now, while society needs to prepare for a future, even hotter climate. Among many other impacts, climate change affects human health and leads to excess mortality due to heat. In cities, the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates the problem, all the ...
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Water and Metal-Powder Micro-Propulsion System for Small Satellites
An Inventive High-Thrust Micro-Propulsion System Compatible with Small-Satellites' Safety and Budget Requirements. The need for high-thrust propulsion systems compatible with small satellites for applications such as constellation deployment, orbit maintenance and stationkeeping is particularly emerging. A ...
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Soilspector – Computer vision-based detection of soil properties
Computer vision-based detection of soil properties.
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ML-BCA: Machine Learning for Body Composition Analysis
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) of the ZHAW, together with the Cantonal Hospital Aarau, has laid the foundations for machine learning-supported body composition analysis on image files of the KSA within the framework of preliminary studies and has achieved promising results. The aim of this project is ...
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High Integrity Satellite Navigation for UAV using the Galileo HAS
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IoT Sustainability Lab
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Raman for Process Analytics
The goal of the project is the realization of a non-dispersive sensor platform for process analytics. The measuring principle is Raman spectroscopy, which due to its high analytical specificity is well suited for process monitoring both in liquid and gas applications.
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Sustainable Mobility Lab
The Sustainable Mobility Lab develops and implements solutions for the ever-increasing complexity in mobility. The implementation is carried out by means of an entrepreneurial agile and iterative approach that supports alternative ways of thinking and working.
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Conductive Skin
Develop an advanced prototype to transfer power in Ventricular Assist Devices that have been implanted to patients with advanced heart failure. The aim is to create a safe and infection-free prototype with a protected IP for the creation of a startup.
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Cyber-Security Tools for a Secure Electrical Energy Systems based on Hardware-in-the-Loop Environment
Electrical systems are working close to their operational limits and the energy transitions are not even close to being fully implemented. In addition, the digitalization of energy systems is equipping electrical systems with sophisticated measurement equipment that has changed the way they communicate their data. ...
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Dynamic Analysis of Internal Android Systems
In this project, we focus on the current state of Android security. One main focus will be to determine current difficulties and limitations that hinder security researchers in performing a dynamic analysis of Android pre-installed software components such as pre-installed apps or native libraries. In a first step, ...
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Enhancing the grid infrastructure for fast charging stations of electromobility
To provide reliability and security to the electrical network and minimize potential collapses, the current strategies to control the charging process, namely the optimal handling of the power electronic components involved, need to be improved and new control algorithms are urged to be developed, which should be ...
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Medtech Ventil Cloudsim
Cloud-simulation based development of a novel type of valve, specifically scaled for application in the med-tech sector.
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Reduced Residual Stresses through Support Structure Optimization in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) has proven to be an attractive and viabletechnology for industry to produce complex components and/or small lot sizes. Thereliability and thus acceptance of metal laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) remains achallenge though. Severe thermal gradients can occur causing excessive ...
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Simulation-based further development of an aseptic process valve with free-floating piston for Non-Newtonian Fluids
Simulation based development of a novel, aseptic process-valve for non-newtonian fluids. We apply finite-volume and finite-element based numerical methods, multiphysics simulations and massive simultaneous cloud computing.
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Simulation-based-process-development of an industrial scale technology for temperature stable vaccines
Within LaPaSim we will develop the Multiphysics simulation models for an industrial unit of a novel ambient temperature drying tech-nology (LaminarPace) enabling dry powder and temperature-stable vaccines, at an industrial scale and ready for integration in commercial production. An innovative ...
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Next-Generation Medical Diagnostics
Development of Solid-State Nanopores as a new biomedical sensor for disease.
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Automated Commissioning of Heat Pumps
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Automated Information Security Governance and Risk Management
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Digital Health Zurich – A practice lab for patient-centred clinical innovation
Digital Health Zurich researches digital health solutions in the hospital context and implements them efficiently and with practical relevance. Core topics are Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROMs), remote monitoring, integrated care and related technologies as well as empowerment of patients and staff. Our ...
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Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Highly Parallel Processing Platform for safe and secure AI (REBECCA)
REBECCA, a heavily SME-driven project, will democratize the development of novel edge AI systems. Towards this aim, REBECCA will develop a purely European complete Hardware(HW) and Software(SW) stack around a RISC-V CPU, which will provide significantly higher levels of a) performance (e.g., inferences per second), ...
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Robust PEMFC MEA derived from model-based udserstanding of durability limitations for heavy duty applications
The R&D project PEMTASTIC aims to meet the key technical challenges to increase durability of MEAs for HD applications. These challenges are approached with a combination of model-based design and the development of a durable CCM using innovative materials tailored for heavy duty operation at high temperature ...